Official Partners

 

Neutral Service Sponsor and Ride Captain Sponsor - Mavic

Mavic has been at the heart of cycling since 1889. Mavic means Manufacture d'Articles Velocipediques Idoux et Chanel. Recognised as one of cycling's most established brands Mavic is empowered by over 100 years of history. The brand with its yellow and black oval logo is respected for its involvement in the sport. By being close to racers, riders, professional teams and events with the SSC neutral service Mavic is able to continue to provide innovative, high performance reliable products to equip both the bike and cyclists form all disciplines.

Today, with over one hundred years of experience, Mavic continues to stride forward into the future with a real passion for the sport of cycling.

Web: www.mavic.com

 

Office Partner - Regus

Regus is the world's largest provider of workplace solutions, offering the widest range of products and services that allow individuals and companies to work however, wherever, and whenever they need to.

Regus operates over 1100 business centres across 500 cities in 85 countries. Products and services include fully furnished, equipped and staffed offices, world-class business support services, meeting conference and training facilities and the largest network of public videoconference rooms all serving over 200,000 clients daily.

Web: www.regus.co.uk

 

Sports Massage Partner - TheTriTouch

TheTriTouch is a sports massage company specialised in cyclists and triathletes, partner of The L2P and Alpine Challenge since 2010. Clinics are based in Hampton Wick (Sigma Sport), Oxford, Kenilworth, London Seven Sisters, London EC1 and Sevenoaks. Aurelie Almeida, founder of TheTriTouch, heads up the sports massage therapists dedicated to The 2012 Alpine Challenge. She has selected the team on grounds of sporting background, skills & experience.

"TheTriTouch team are sportsmen and women coming from a wide range of sporting backgrounds at amateur, international and Olympic level. We all have personal knowledge of training, competing, injury prevention & recovery; gained from years of dedication to our own sport. We are used to looking after cyclists on tour and can help you ride more comfortably whilst looking after your aches and pains during the trip."

Web: www.thetritouch.co.uk

 

GPS Tracking Partner - Map My Tracks

Map My Tracks is an outdoor social network for sports enthusiasts that makes it easy to track rides, share with others and improve your cycling performance. Map My Tracks is all about training smarter and improving sporting performance. Using Map My Tracks OutFront for iPhone during your rides provides you with comprehensive performance stats, access to worldwide routes, easy ways to share on Facebook or Twitter and live tracking for others to follow your progress.

Web: www.mapmytracks.com

 

Partner - 76 Harley Street

The Centre for Health and Human Performance (CHHP) is an inter-speciality health and performance clinic at 76 Harley Street. Our consultant physicians and surgeons are leaders in their fields, and many of our team are internationally recognised for their clinical expertise and research. Lead by its Medical Director, Dr Jack Kreindler and Professor Greg Whyte, the multi-disciplinary team care for a range of patients, from elite athletes and Olympians, to the critically ill.

As part of CHHP, Tony Gibb, Head of Cycling Performance, runs an elite cycle performance clinic at 76 Harley Street, coaching and supporting clients through everything from position setting to improving their performance. As part of the service we run, clients can have a clinical grade Cardio Pulmonary Exercise (CPEX) test combined with a physiological maximal ramp test to enable efficient and effective exercise program prescription. The program is unique to each individual, with tangible results to ensure an improvement in performance, whatever the individual’s basal level of fitness.

"Starting from a pretty good level I hoped for a small improvement but results unexpected. My average training speed is up by about 5km/h. Basically 40% stronger at my cruising speed. Some pretty tough training sessions but results are nothing short of awesome." David Bryant, HotChillee Ride Captain

Web: www.76harleystreet.com

 

Partner - Classic Cycling Tours

At Classic Cycling Tours we specialize in providing fully supported cycling holidays & cycling training camps in the Northern French Alps. From our base in Meribel we have access to some of the world's most spectacular cycling routes. Our rides will include many of the legendary climbs made famous by the Tour de France. With all our cycling packages we offer enthusiastic guides who have a detailed knowledge of the area. We also provide cyclists with a minibus support service on the longer rides to ensure they have the food & drinks necessary to keep their energy levels to the maximum. Then after that long ride, when your legs are begging for recovery, we have a fully qualified Sports Massage Therapist to get you back in shape for the next days challenge.

Web: www.classiccyclingtours.co.uk

 

Broadcast Partner - British Eurosport

British Eurosport will be broadcasting a documentary on The London-Paris 2011, created by Cyclevox, at peak times, with the first viewing being the first weekend of the 2011 Tour de France. This will take the event to the screens of thousands of cycling fans.

In the UK, British Eurosport launched in 1999, replacing Eurosport International on most platforms with some schedule variations and local commentary. British Eurosport creates programmes specifically for the UK, it has live studio presentations of numerous major sporting events and tournaments.

Web: www.eurosport.com

 

Training Partner - Stephen Roche Training Camps

In 1994 Stephen Roche and Claude Escalon established Fitness, Velo, Evasion, a cycling holiday and training camp business now known as Stephen Roche Cycling Holidays and Training Camps. The company based in Palmanova, Mallorca was set up to provide cyclist of all ages and levels of ability with the opportunity to take part in cycle camps and holidays that were fully guided and supported by a professional team of staff.

Having developed a successful business with a growing reputation for offering good quality training camps and cycle holidays, the business has grown year on year and 18 years later the company is still owned and operated by Stephen and his team of specialists, who still provide the same exceptional level of customers service and quality cycling holidays that has been come to be expected.

Web: www.stephenroche.com